Very thrilled to share that Penn State will hold MASC-SLL'25 this year. We are trying to provide Penn State Berkey Creamery-----one of the best ice creams in this world (or let's say in academia😅) to attendees.....Your attendance and submissions are highly welcome

I interviewed for LLM/ML research scientist/engineering positions last Fall. Over 200 applications, 100 interviews, many rejections & some offers later, I decided to write the process down, along with the resources I used. Links to the process & resources in the following tweets

📢#ACL2025NLP This year we received 8276 submissions 👏 which is the highest number in the history of ACL conferences 🙌 If you are not yet involved as a reviewer, AC or SAC, we would encourage you to volunteer as an (emergency) AC or reviewer forms.gle/u5C2Daq1Mz9kXw… 🙏

We just released Version 2 of our survey on 𝐌𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, ext. to 𝟑𝟓 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬! arxiv.org/pdf/2407.02646 Major updates🧵: x.com/DakingRai/stat… We received positive feedback from V1 and are excited to see it become a helpful guide.

🚀After a year of development based on our OSWorld, Computer Use Agent Arena is LIVE! Test top AI agents (Operator, Claude 3.7...) on any kinds of computer use tasks with zero setup. Cloud-hosted, safe, and FREE! Try it now: arena.xlang.ai ! Data & code coming soon!

Proud to share exploration w/ my student Saurabh Srivastava abt 𝐃𝐨 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧? arxiv.org/pdf/2504.07357 Key💡: vs. LLMs, LRMs benefit more from prompt opt and are also better prompt optimizers.

🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! Join us to push the frontier of AI and machine learning in genomics—aiming to uncover the genetic basis of complex human disorders. Please help RT! 🙏. For more information, please visit: haohanwang.github.io/postdoc_hiring…

That's a wrap for #ICLR2025! See you all next year in Brazil! Please all welcome Bharath Hariharan as the new Senior Program Chair! (With Carl Vondrick continuing on as General Chair.)

BlackboxNLP will be co-located with #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou this November! 📷This edition will feature a new shared task on circuits/causal variable localization in LMs, details: blackboxnlp.github.io/2025/task If you're into mech interp and care about evaluation, please submit!

🥳We are organizing a workshop at COLM to discuss the research gap about applying explainability/interpretability to enhance LLMs in challenging reasoning and planning tasks! Check out our tentative schedule at …reasoning-planning-workshop.github.io **Submit your excellent work to us!**

📣 Call for Reviewers We're looking for reviewers with expertise in LLM interpretability, reasoning, or planning for XLLM-Reason-Plan at Conference on Language Modeling . If you’re Interested, sign up here: forms.office.com/r/Z7qXnEKZne 📝 Review period: June 24 – July 7 📄 Load: 2–3 papers

🎉 We're excited to announce three more amazing speakers for the XLLM-Reason-Plan at Conference on Language Modeling! Zining Zhu , Mark Riedl, Huan Sun (OSU). More info about workshop: …reasoning-planning-workshop.github.io

🤩Check out our amazing line-up of speakers …reasoning-planning-workshop.github.io covering topics: explainability for reasoning, agent safety, human-AI interaction, mechanistic interpretability, and MORE!!

Check out our #CVPR25 paper! Mohamed Aghzal has done a series of work on 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 uniquely from LLM + Robotics perspective: arxiv.org/pdf/2310.03249 arxiv.org/pdf/2502.12435 arxiv.org/pdf/2406.12000 Go talk to him if you are also on this topic! Department of Computer Science - George Mason George Mason University

Had a great time at this CVPR community-building workshop---lots of fun discussions and some really important insights for early-career researchers. I also gave a talk on "Research as an Infinite Game." Here are the slides: canva.com/design/DAGp0iR…

🚨Deadline alert: If you work on LLM explainability for reasoning and planning, submit your work by June 23! - Non-archival, two formats (long/short) - Welcome recently accepted papers and dual submissions - 🏆Two awards will be announced! Details: …reasoning-planning-workshop.github.io

If you work in the space of LLM explainability, submit your completed/ongoing/recently accepted/under review work to us! Your chance to win awards😍 XLLM-Reason-Plan

⏳Deadline extended! The submission deadline for XLLM-Reason-Plan has been moved to June 27th. More time to submit your work — we look forward to your submissions! Details: …reasoning-planning-workshop.github.io